This book examines the Greens' contribution to the changing nature
of contemporary German local politics and the effect of local
political involvement upon the Greens themselves. The author shows
how the established 'unpolitical' nature of Germany's local
politics has given way to overtly political and confrontational
approaches. This has occurred primarily under the influence of the
Greens and the 'New Local Politics'. The book appears at an
important juncture for the German Greens with questions being posed
about their relevance in a post-unification Germany.

A book that will set the course for the environmental movement for
years to come, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior is an inspiring
ecological call to arms by America's foremost and most
controversial environmental activist. "Rude and brilliant. Read it
and you will see the future."--William Kittredge.

Scholars, politicians, and activists worldwide are finally
recognizing the severity of the global environmental crisis, yet
serious threats to the environmental movement remain.
Anti-environmentalists dismiss the very idea of a "crisis" as a
mirage. Much less obvious, however, is the more subtle threat
masquerading under the mantle of environmentalism itself. It is
this threat that "Green Delusions" addresses. Writing from the
standpoint of a committed environmentalist, Martin W. Lewis
contends that many of the most devoted and strident "greens," those
who propose a radical environmentalism, unwittingly espouse an
ill-conceived doctrine that has devastating implications for the
global ecosystem. In this book he distinguishes the main variants
of eco-extremism, exposes the fallacies upon which such views
ultimately flounder, and demonstrates that the policies advocated
by their proponents would, if enacted, result in unequivocal
ecological disaster. At once polemic and prescriptive, "Green
Delusions" is an impassioned attempt to defend the environmental
movement against extremist ideas that would lead to self-defeating
political strategies.

Since 1983, when the West German public elected several of their
party members to representative seats in the Bundestag, the Greens
(Die Grunen) have been a political force. "A Rhetoric of the
People" studies how the German Greens have evolved a rhetorical
style that is characteristic of a social movement, voicing citizen
dissatisfaction with representative democracy and the insensitive
decision making of traditional political and economic structures.
Authors Coleman and Coleman discuss the Greens as part of a
significant global environmental movement, and as a voice that
advocates a new politics based on the key notions of ecology, equal
rights, grassroots democracy, self-determination, Third World
concerns, and peace.

"A Rhetoric of the People" concentrates on the Greens'
rhetorical vision as presented in their public utterances and
political platforms. To furnish a context for appreciating the
Greens' persuasive efforts, the authors examine green argumentative
stances in general, then present a brief review of the global
environmental movement and a discussion of the evolution of the
German Green Party. What follows is essentially a descriptive study
that highlights the verbal discourse of the Greens as revealed in
their official party statements. The authors conclude by exploring
some of the issues and problems presently facing the Greens, and
contemplating the future of the party. Recommended for
sociologists, political scientists, environmentalists, and
communications scholars.

This book is a study of local grassroots activism in two major
political areas, the peace and environmental movements, over a
period of five years. Interviews with leaders of 166 different
groups in five states (Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire,
California, and Oregon), supplemented by personal observation and
participation in several of those groups are the foundations of
this analysis. The major concerns are the components of group and
movement successes, both short-run and long-run, and activist group
adaptations to change in the larger social and political world in
light of political upheaval in Eastern Europe, the Gulf War, and
several environmental crises that occurred during the period in
question. Finally, Zisk focuses on the growing convergence (and
barriers to convergence) of the movements. After examining short
run accomplishments, Zisk concludes that most of the groups in both
movements are faring poorly: few of their concrete goals are
achieved, media attention is poor, and membership growth is
problematic. For both movements, the transformational wings (those
that press for basic changes, use consensus decision making, have
few paid staff members) are not doing so well as the incremental
wings (those seeking limited goals, using traditional decision
techniques, employing larger staffs). This book should be of
interest to students and teachers of political science and
sociology.

Minutes to Midnight explores the dynamics of the antinuclear
protest movement, particularly the freeze and its origins, growth,
decline, and enduring problems. Beginning with a historical
analysis of early attempts to control nuclear weapons, the authors
then use a unique sociohistorical case study to give new insight
into how social change occurs in postindustrial society. The seven
chapters examine the problems created by the development of
technology, nuclear weapons, and the creation of new social classes
and new social movements as vehicles to accumulate power.

Minutes to Midnight explores the dynamics of the antinuclear
protest movement, particularly the freeze and its origins, growth,
decline, and enduring problems. Beginning with a historical
analysis of early attempts to control nuclear weapons, the authors
then use a unique sociohistorical case study to give new insight
into how social change occurs in postindustrial society. The seven
chapters examine the problems created by the development of
technology, nuclear weapons, and the creation of new social classes
and new social movements as vehicles to accumulate power.

In its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness areas in the
United States was motivated less by perceived threats from
industrial and agricultural activities than by concern over the
impacts of automobile owners seeking recreational opportunities in
wild areas. Countless commercial and government purveyors
vigorously promoted the mystique of travel to breathtakingly scenic
places, and roads and highways were built to facilitate such
travel. By the early 1930s, New Deal public works programs brought
these trends to a startling crescendo. The dilemma faced by
stewards of the nation's public lands was how to protect the wild
qualities of those places while accommodating, and often
encouraging, automobile-based tourism. By 1935, the founders of the
Wilderness Society had become convinced of the impossibility of
doing both. In Driven Wild, Paul Sutter traces the intellectual and
cultural roots of the modern wilderness movement from about 1910
through the 1930s, with tightly drawn portraits of four Wilderness
Society founders--Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton
MacKaye, and Bob Marshall. Each man brought a different background
and perspective to the advocacy for wilderness preservation, yet
each was spurred by a fear of what growing numbers of automobiles,
aggressive road building, and the meteoric increase in Americans
turning to nature for their leisure would do to the country's wild
places. As Sutter discovered, the founders of the Wilderness
Society were "driven wild"--pushed by a rapidly changing country to
construct a new preservationist ideal. Sutter demonstrates that the
birth of the movement to protect wilderness areas reflected a
growing belief among an important group of conservationists that
the modern forces of capitalism, industrialism, urbanism, and mass
consumer culture were gradually eroding not just the ecology of
North America, but crucial American values as well. For them,
wilderness stood for something deeply sacred that was in danger of
being lost, so that the movement to protect it was about saving not
just wild nature, but ourselves as well.

The potential conflict among economic and ecological goals has
formed the central fault line of environmental politics in the
United States and most other countries since the 1970s. The
accepted view is that efforts to protect the environment will
detract from economic growth, jobs, and global competitiveness.
Conversely, much advocacy on behalf of the environment focuses on
the need to control growth and avoid its more damaging effects.
This offers a stark choice between prosperity and growth, on the
one hand, and ecological degradation on the other. Stopping or
reversing growth in most countries is unrealistic, economically
risky, politically difficult, and is likely to harm the very groups
that should be protected. At the same time, a strategy of unguided
"growth above all" would cause ecological catastrophe. Over the
last decade, the concept of green growth - the idea that the right
mix of policies, investments, and technologies will lead to
beneficial growth within ecological limits - has become central to
global and national debates and policy due to the financial crisis
and climate change. As Daniel J. Fiorino argues, in order for green
growth to occur, ecological goals must be incorporated into the
structure of the economic and political systems. In this book, he
looks at green growth, a vast topic that has heretofore not been
systematically covered in the literature on environmental policy
and politics. Fiorino looks at its role in global, national, and
local policy making; its relationship to sustainable development;
controversies surrounding it (both from the left and right); its
potential role in ameliorating inequality; and the policy
strategies that are linked with it. The book also examines the
political feasibility of green growth as a policy framework. While
he focuses on the United States, Fiorino will draw comparisons to
green growth policy in other countries, including Germany, China,
and Brazil.

Charting the history of contemporary philosophical and religious
beliefs regarding nature, Roderick Nash focuses primarily on
changing attitudes toward nature in the United States. His work is
the first comprehensive history of the concept that nature has
rights and that American liberalism has, in effect, been extended
to the nonhuman world.
"A splendid book. Roderick Nash has written another classic. This
exploration of a new dimension in environmental ethics is both
illuminating and overdue."--Stewart Udall
"His account makes history 'come alive.'"--"Sierra"
"So smoothly written that one almost does not notice the breadth
of scholarship that went into this original and important work of
environmental history."--Philip Shabecoff, "New York Times Book
Review"
"Clarifying and challenging, this is an essential text for deep
ecologists and ecophilosophers."--Stephanie Mills, "Utne
Reader"

The Australian Greens has been described at various times as the
fastest growing new party in Australia, its forerunner the United
Tasmania Group the first Green party in the world, and its former
Leader Bob Brown as a global treasure. The party played a pivotal
role after the 2010 federal election in ensuring the Gillard
Government was sustained for 3 years. Although battered in the
following Abbott landslide election, the party has survived and
grown, to become somewhat of a fixture of Australia politics.
However, what do we really know about the Greens in Australia? Is
the party really just an extension of the environment movement, or
has it matured to a professional party, capable of taking on the
`big boys'? This book represents an important effort to come to
grips with this question, by talking to the people who make the
party tick. Who are the members and activists of the party? What do
they think about the political and policy winds sweeping Australia
in the early 21st century? And has the party made that transition
from a home for tree-huggers and alternative lifestylers to a party
ready to work in Government? And the answer must be: yes.

Over the past four decades the world has seen a 'green awakening'.
Green parties have been elected to parliaments and councils all
over the world. A common set of environmental priorities have been
promoted by green internationalisation and these parties are
playing an increasing role at all levels of political
decision-making. Will this awakening continue or will the greens be
corrupted by power? What impact has their politics had? Will green
thinking be able to compete with other ideologies in coping with
the problems of the 21st century? Green Parties, Green Future
analyses over a hundred of these parties' experience from all over
the world. It reveals the story of the expansion and development of
the movement, from local environmental groups to national and
global decision-makers.

The First Green Wave will appeal to scholars and students of
Canadian history, environmental studies, and social movements, as
well as Canadians who remember the heady days of the first wave
environmental movement.

Although suburb-building created major environmental problems,
Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement
originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban
sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late nineteenth
century, new suburbanites turned to taming the wildness of their
surroundings. They cultivated a fondness for the natural world
around them, and in the decades that followed, they became
sensitized to potential threats. Sellers shows how the philosophy,
science, and emotions that catalyzed the environmental movement
sprang directly from suburbanites' lives and their ideas about
nature, as well as the unique ecology of the neighborhoods in which
they dwelt. Sellers focuses on the spreading edges of New York and
Los Angeles over the middle of the twentieth century to create an
intimate portrait of what it was like to live amid suburban nature.
As suburbanites learned about their land, became aware of
pollution, and saw the forests shrinking around them, the
vulnerability of both their bodies and their homes became apparent.
Worries crossed lines of class and race and necessitated new ways
of thinking and acting, Sellers argues, concluding that
suburb-dwellers, through the knowledge and politics they forged,
deserve much of the credit for inventing modern environmentalism.

The First Green Wave will appeal to scholars and students of
Canadian history, environmental studies, and social movements, as
well as Canadians who remember the heady days of the first wave
environmental movement.

The Green movement in America has lost its way. Pew polling reveals
that the environment is one of the two things about which
Republicans and Democrats disagree most. Congress has not passed a
landmark piece of environmental legislation for a quarter-century.
As atmospheric CO2 continues its relentless climb, even
environmental insiders have pronounced "the death of
environmentalism." In Getting to Green, Frederic C. Rich argues
that meaningful progress on urgent environmental issues can be made
only on a bipartisan basis. Rich reminds us of American
conservation's conservative roots and of the bipartisan political
consensus that had Republican congressmen voting for, and Richard
Nixon signing, the most important environmental legislation of the
1970s. He argues that faithfulness to conservative principles
requires the GOP to support environmental protection, while at the
same time he criticizes the Green movement for having drifted too
far to the left and too often appearing hostile to business and
economic growth. With a clear-eyed understanding of past failures
and a realistic view of the future, Getting to Green argues that
progress on environmental issues is within reach. The key is
encouraging Greens and conservatives to work together in the space
where their values overlap-what the book calls "Center Green."
Center Green takes as its model the hugely successful national land
trust movement, which has retained vigorous bipartisan support.
Rich's program is pragmatic and non-ideological. It is rooted in
the way America is, not in a utopian vision of what it could
become. It measures policy not by whether it is the optimum
solution but by the two-part test of whether it would make a
meaningful contribution to an environmental problem and whether it
is achievable politically. Application of the Center Green approach
moves us away from some of the harmful orthodoxies of mainstream
environmentalism and results in practical and actionable positions
on climate change, energy policy, and other crucial issues. This is
how we get to Green.

Based on interviews with members of grassroots organizations, media
and government institutions, "Green Politics in China" provides an
in-depth and engaging account of the novel ways in which Chinese
society is responding to its environmental crisis, using examples
rarely captured in Western media or academia.
Joy Y. Zhang and Michael Barr explain how environmental problems
are transforming Chinese society through new developments such as
the struggle for clean air, low-carbon conspiracy theories, new
forms of public fund raising and the international tactics of
grassroots NGOs. In doing so, they challenge static understandings
of state-society relations in China.
"Green Politics in China" is an illuminating and detailed
investigation which provides crucial insights into how China is
both changing internally and emerging as a powerful player in
global environmental politics.

Today's environmental concerns can trace their heritage through
scriptures, teachings and actions known to generations across the
centuries. The millions of followers of the Abrahamic faiths have
the potential to turn their common environmental awareness into a
worldwide force for the future of the planet they share with all
people of faith - and of none. Combining a lightness of touch with
some of the most beautiful and enlightening texts from the
Abrahamic scriptures, Sharing Eden is just a beginning.

Despite three decades of scientists' warnings and
environmentalists' best efforts, the political will and public
engagement necessary to fuel robust action on global climate change
remain in short supply. Katharine K. Wilkinson shows that, contrary
to popular expectations, faith-based efforts are emerging and
strengthening to address this problem. In the US, perhaps none is
more significant than evangelical climate care.
Drawing on extensive focus group and textual research and
interviews, Between God & Green explores the phenomenon of
climate care, from its historical roots and theological grounding
to its visionary leaders and advocacy initiatives. Wilkinson
examines the movement's reception within the broader evangelical
community, from pew to pulpit. She shows that by engaging with
climate change as a matter of private faith and public life,
leaders of the movement challenge traditional boundaries of the
evangelical agenda, partisan politics, and established alliances
and hostilities. These leaders view sea-level rise as a moral
calamity, lobby for legislation written on both sides of the aisle,
and partner with atheist scientists.
Wilkinson reveals how evangelical environmentalists are reshaping
not only the landscape of American climate action, but the contours
of their own religious community. Though the movement faces complex
challenges, climate care leaders continue to leverage
evangelicalism's size, dominance, cultural position, ethical
resources, and mechanisms of communication to further their cause
to bridge God and green.

The relationship between economic growth and the environment is
at the forefront of public attention and poses serious challenges
for policymakers around the world. Economic Analysis of
Environmental Policy, a textbook for advanced undergraduate and
graduate courses, provides a rigorous and thorough explanation of
modern environmental economics, applying this exposition to
contemporary issues and policy analysis.

Opening with a discussion of contemporary pollution problems,
institutional players and the main policy instruments at our
disposal, Ross McKitrick develops core theories of environmental
valuation and optimal control of pollution. Chapters that follow
cover issues like tradable permits, regulatory standards, emission
taxes, and polluter liability as well as advanced topics like trade
and the environment, sustainability, risk, inequality, and
self-monitoring. Throughout, McKitrick uses clear, intuitive, and
coherent analytical tools, so that students, academics, and
practitioners can develop their policy analysis skills while
comprehending the debates and challenges at the frontier of this
exciting and rapidly-developing field.

Environmental activism in contemporary Russia exemplifies both
the promise and the challenge facing grassroots politics in the
post-Soviet period. In the late Soviet period, Russia's
environmental movement was one of the country's most dynamic and
effective forms of social activism, and it appeared well positioned
to influence the direction and practice of post-Soviet politics. At
present, however, activists scattered across Russia face severe
obstacles to promoting green issues that range from wildlife
protection and nuclear safety to environmental education.

Based on fifteen months of fieldwork in five regions of Russia,
from the European west to Siberia and the Far East, Red to Green
goes beyond familiar debates about the strength and weakness of
civil society in Russia to identify the contradictory trends that
determine the political influence of grassroots movements. In an
organizational analysis of popular mobilization that addresses the
continuing role of the Soviet legacy, the influence of
transnational actors, and the relevance of social mobilization
theory to the Russian case, Laura Henry details what grassroots
organizations in Russia actually do, how they use the limited
economic and political opportunities that are available to them,
and when they are able to influence policy and political
practice.

Drawing on her in-depth interviews with activists, Henry
illustrates how green organizations have pursued their goals by
"recycling" Soviet-era norms, institutions, and networks and using
them in combination with transnational ideas, resources, and
partnerships. Ultimately, Henry shows that the limited variety of
organizations that activists have constructed within post-Soviet
Russia's green movement serve as a "fossil record" of the
environmentalists' innovations, failures, and compromises. Her
research suggests new ways to understand grassroots politics
throughout the postcommunist region and in other postauthoritarian
contexts.

In a time of darkening environmental prospects, frightening
religious fundamentalism, and moribund liberalism, the remarkable
and historically unprecedented rise of religious environmentalism
is a profound source of hope. In A Greener Faith, Roger S. Gottlieb
chronicles the promises of this critically important movement,
illuminating its principal ideas, leading personalities, and ways
of connecting care for the earth with justice for human beings. He
also shows how religious environmentalism breaks the customary
boundaries of "religious issues" in political life. Asserting that
environmental degradation is sacrilegious, sinful, and an offense
against God catapults religions directly into questions of social
policy, economic and moral priorities, and the overall direction of
secular society. Gottlieb contends that a spiritual perspective
applied to the Earth provides the environmental movement with a
uniquely appropriate way to voice its dream of a sustainable and
just world. Equally important, it helps develop a world-making
political agenda that far exceeds interest group politics applied
to forests and toxic incinerators. Rather, religious
environmentalism offers an all-inclusive vision of what human
beings are and how we should treat each other and the rest of life.
Gottlieb deftly analyzes the growing synthesis of the movement's
religious, social, and political aspects, as well as the challenges
it faces in consumerism, fundamentalism, and globalization. Highly
engaging and passionately argued, this book is an indispensable
resource for people of faith, environmentalists, scholars, and
anyone who is concerned about our planet's future.

The Environmental Movement introduces readers to this significant
movement, which arose in the United States in the late 1800s in
response to the nation's dwindling forests and the pollution caused
by a greater number of factories. The abundant photographs and
vibrant text chronicles the accomplishments of conservationists
such as Gifford Pinchot and John Muir, who helped the movement gain
a foothold in the United States. This useful book also details how
environmentalism has become a global effort, led by organizations
such as Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund.